My Dads blog

Hello friends and family:

I thought I would post a link to my Dads blog. Many of you have heard the news that the cancer came back and many of you have asked about his current condition. So here is the link. We will try and update it each week, and any time anything happens.

Thank you so much for all of your love and support. It means more than you know.

http://www.thelefrandtfamily.blogspot.com/

Love,

Jon

Our Sweet Sweet Lily Girls...

Lily is growing up way to fast... honestly, where has the time gone? She turns 9 months old on Sunday. She is on the verge of crawling, we catch her sitting up in her crib, she wants to eat everything and her little personality just keeps blossoming! We are loving being parents... she has brought us so much joy. Michele Reyes did such a great job capturing all of her fun expressions. Thank you Michele! Hope you all enjoy these pictures as much as we do! We can't stop looking at them! 

A Sneak Peek!

We just received this proof from our photographer and had to share! She is the most beautifulous baby girls in da whole wide world!

We are so excited to see the rest and will be sure to post them as soon as they get here! We can hardly wait! 

A Time For Change...Again

So I'm a little late on posting some of these but now I have a fully functioning computer and my camera back!

Me and my sweet Lily on Mothers Day...she really is an angel and fills my life with so much Joy

Happy Birthday Bryce! Partying in true Bryce fashion.
Go Bees! We went to the Bees game with some of my family and took Jon's little sister and her friend with us. We made it out with no spilled beer on us and no foul balls hitting us so overall it was a really fun night. 
Mommy, big girl and daddy on tracks up to the game (this was right before Lily threw up everywhere. I think she gets a little motion sick like both her parents).
Playing at my friend Jenn Fossums house. Thanks for the lunch Jenn, it was so much fun!
Jon thinks this is Lily's most unflattering angle, but I love this picture and had to show the teeth!

Time for change

Well... Life in the Lefrandt household has been some what chaotic and full of change. I am posting just three pictures, simply because I haven't had time to upload the others. You would think that things like that would be so simple, and things like posting on blogs would be simple as well... I guess we are just going to have to try a little harder.

Jon finally graduated from BYU with a degree in Advertising and Marketing. He opted to not start his new job with Ivory Homes until May 20th and we spent some time together as a family without the stresses of school and work. While the bank account is much lower, and it was a struggle for Jon to overcome the stresses of not seeing money come in the bank like it used to... it was exactly what the Lefrandt family needed... some time together.

We also took some to go back to where Jon is from, Seattle! Jon grew up there and always said, "You will never fully know me until you have been to Seattle." We are going to save our Seattle stories/memories for the next post... stay tuned!

Lily is growing like a weed and we can tell that her crawling days are just around the corner. She has now entered the world of eating solids!! she loves banana's, sweet potatoes and rice cereal... She also loves to squeel during Daddy's lessons at church. Needless to say, we have never appreciated church in peace and quiet more ;) But we get a kick out of her and love watching her through all of her little stages.

We would also like to apologize for the lack of posting. Please forgive us. We will try to be better as we enter the new, fun filled stage of full time work, and full time parenthood... wish us luck!

It's a SMALL WORLD!!!

A little over three years ago I got back from my mission. I served in Sendai Japan and loved my time there! I had a lot of companions that were from the States and I had two companions from Australia. My little brother Matt got his mission call to Brisbane Australia and has loved his experience thus far. It was shocking to me to recieve a letter from my brother informing me that my former companion (that I had TWICE) Elder Ngtai was his ward mission leader!!! Elder Ngtai is the man, we had a blast together, we served as Assistants under President Bird together and it has been fun exchanging emails and catching back up. He is the father of two and seems to be doing really well. As if this wasn't a small enough coincidence...
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The last picture is at a Zone Leader Conference. The Elder right below me (we are both wearing pink ties) is Elder Semaan. He was my last companion in the mission home. He is also from Australia and was visiting his brother who just so happens to be in the same ward that Matt (Elder Lefrandt) is serving in!

It has been extremely fun for me to see Matt interacting and doing missionary work with two of the Elders that I loved most. They were both amazing missionaries and are good friends. Elder Ngtai often saves Matt when they are out of food and will bring a loaf of bread over, and has gone tracting with him on a couple of occasions. They both told Matt that he is just like me, and when we talked to Matt on Mothers day he says it is shocking that I act a lot like them! We all seem to be rubbing off on each-other. It truly is a small world after all...

Happy Mothers Day!!

Dearest Mothers,

I just wanted to take a quick second and write a quick thank you to all of the mothers out there. Whether you are my mother, my mother in-law, the mother of my children or simply someone else's mother... I wanted to say THANK YOU. I often think about where my life would be without my own mother and realize... I would be a much different person without her influence.

I am grateful that I married a woman that is an amazing mother. I never doubted she could do it! This is what she has lived her life for! She always longed for the day when she would have a baby to call her own. Lily has brought us so much joy, but she is a lot of work. Ash does it effortlessly. She loves what she does and she is great at it! I think she is the greatest Mom out there and I am so glad I married her. For time and eternity. Love you Ash! Happy FIRST Mothers day!

Love,

Jon